The Labor leader, Bill Shorten, and the prime minister, Scott Morrison, before the third leaders’ debate, which was hosted by the National Press Club and moderated by Sabra Lane.
Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

We are going to wrap up the blog for the night – there are now just nine and a bit days left of campaigning to go.

The campaigns will both take off from Canberra early tomorrow morning, but with the latest royal baby expected to be shown off and probably named (or at least release the name, I am sure the little poppet has a name by now) it might be a slow start to the press conferences.

Then we have Labor’s costings on Friday. Then the Liberal party will launch it’s campaign (officially) on Sunday and we will be off and running into the final week.

More than 1.15 million people have voted already. There will be about the same vote by next Friday. That’s a lot of people who have stopped listening. And makes all those other people even more important for the parties.

So get some rest – we will be back with you early tomorrow.

Big thank yous all round to everyone. And as always – take care of you.

Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten shake hands after the third and final election debate Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Scott and Jenny Morrison after the final election debate. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Meanwhile, the government doesn’t seem to have any further plans for those still on Manus Island and Nauru, beyond the US resettlement plan, and what is already in place with PNG and Nauru.

Labor said again it would look at at other third-country resettlement options, including the New Zealand option the government has rejected as being too close to resettlement in Australia – because of the freedom of movement allowed between the two countries.

Well, for a start there will be 2.5 million more Australians employed in this country with jobs. We will have been, we will have achieved our 2030 emissions reduction target that we set for ourselves in 2030. We have ensured that we’ve maintained an increased funding at record levels for our hospitals and schools and our roads.

We will have delivered $100bn in infrastructure investment, busting-congestion in our cities and making our rural and regional roads safer so Australians can get home sooner and safer, whether it’s from being out on the town and getting back on the farm or getting home on Race Course Road out there in La Trobe.

All of these things, the investment in our hospitals, the investment in our schools, youth suicide, it’s my goal in this next election, in this next term to ensure woe tackle this with a vigour and a resource and a focus that we’ve never seen in this country.

And to ensure that every single Australian who needs those affordable medicines like young Luke Emery with cystic fibrosis, gets them every single time, by managing our money and keeping our economy strong.

Bill Shorten:

I want my kids to grow up in 2030 and see a more modern Australia. I want them to see a nation which has embraced climate change and action on climate change. I want to see half of our energy coming from renewable energy.

I want to see the young women in my family, my daughters, being paid the same as my son. So I want genuine equality for women.

I want to see us have an expenditure on science and research in this country, which is currently 2% of our GDP, go to 3%. I want to be a scientific nation, a research nation.

I want to make sure that this is an economy which works in the interests of working and middle-class people. I want to see a country where your postcode, your gender, your parents’ wealth, the faith you follow and how many generations you’ve been in this country are not the predictors of your success.

I want us to be a nation which is more equal and, in becoming more equal, what we’ll actually deliver is a more prosperous and wealthy nation for my kids and, indeed, their kids after that.